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Henry Thomas Alken
1784-1851
A Phaeton and four
hand-colored etching
image: 243 x 343 mm; plate mark: 257 x 354 mm
Peel 2106
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Does not appear in George, M.D. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Printed above title: Moments of fancy
Printed in lower part of image: Apollo was foolish ... he could not do more, / Than trust such as fool ... with a Phaeton & four.
Printed in lower left of image: Hy. Alken, Delt.
Trimmed at plate mark.
Summary:
Comic depiction of the Fall of Phaeton: a man in a classical toga seated in a chariot, his hands raised to his face in horror as his four horses fall from the sky.
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